Karhu.Backend

The Karhu.Backend project is an ASP.NET MVC 3 application implementing the required Products and Categories controller for the Karhu HTML5 Application.

Prerequisites

To store the product and category data a SQL Server Express needs to be installed on the machine. Further ASP.NET MVC3 with the newest Update should be installed in order to run this project.

Setup

First thing to do is to install Entity Framework 4.1 via nuget. To do this just open the package manager console and type

install-package EntityFramework

. To use the Karhu client with this backend please copy the contents of the public folder into the Karhu.Backend project in Visual Studio 2010. Ensure that index.html and config.js is in the root of Karhu.Backend and the subdirectories

css
images
js
locales
templates
vendor

are in place. Then just simply execute the application by starting in debug mode and you should have a running copy of Karhu with appropriate .NET backend.

Copied Everything?

If so, you are ready to start, here we go: Karhu.

Known Issues

The Karhu.Backend currently does not implement the following features from the Karhu client

Sorting - Sorting just works in offline mode as it is implemented in the client, server side sorting is not implemented
Search - Search is not implemented, is is just running in offline mode
Localization is not working correctly. Price and Date fields are not handled on the backend correctly.
User Management is completely missing. There is only one hard coded user with the credentials username: demo password. geheim.

The missing features will be implemented in the near future.

There are some other issues in class design which should be refactored. There are also no unit tests for the Karhu.Backend, but there are unit tests for the client side.

To Consider

if you plan to deploy Karhu.Backend to another machine with the Karhu client, please ensure that the mime/type for mustache templates is enabled. You can have a look at the web.config.

Feedback

If you have any kind of comments or feedback, please contact me dparys@microsoft.com or http://downtocode.net or @writeline via Twitter.